Background
Graham Macklin is a researcher at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-Rex), University of Oslo, Norway. He has long standing research interests in fascist and extreme right-wing politics in Britain, North America and Europe and is interested more broadly in the study of political violence and terrorism.
He completed his PhD at Sheffield University (2002) on the resurrection of British fascism after 1945, which formed the basis for his subsequent monograph "Very Deeply Dyed in Black”: Oswald Mosley and the resurrection of British fascism (2007).
He has published widely on the field of fascist, extreme right-wing, and anti-minority politics in Britain and North America in both the inter-war and post-war periods including, most recently, Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right (2020) and the co-edited collection Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method & Practice (2020). Macklin is currently completing a history of contemporary far right terrorism which will be published by Routledge in 2024. He is also working on several other related projects related to far right transnational networks and political violence.
Macklin is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Associate Fellow in the Current and Emerging Threat team at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - ICCT in The Hague. He is an associate editor of Patterns of Prejudice. He also co-edits the 'Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right' book series and is on the editorial board of 'Fascism,' having previously served for several years as its editor.
A Selection of Past Projects
Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality (DARE) (Horizon 2020)
‘Hot periods’ of anti-minority activism and the threat of violent domestic extremism: Towards an assessment framework (CREST: 2019-2020)
The Internal brakes on violent escalation (CREST: 2017-2018)